04-08-2020, 09:51 PM | #1 |
Join Date: Mar 2020
Location: Oregon
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Removing Decals
Hi all, I'm expecting my Apollo 250cc soon and I was wondering if anyone has removed the numbers that come on the bike? I'm just not a fan of them and was wondering how difficult they are to remove. Thanks
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04-09-2020, 08:11 AM | #2 |
Join Date: Apr 2019
Location: Strong Island New Yawk
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Not specific to Apollo, but I recently removed all decals from my TBR7
Buckle down for a nightmare my friend. I tried EVERYTHING!!!! every dumb video on the internet , oil, WD40, GOOF OFF, GOO b GONE...nothing worked well. WHAT WORKED? Heat the decals a bit with blow dryer to remove easier ( will leave glue film behind ) Lots of gasoline on a wet rag and upon saturating the decals, you then take a rough sponge and make small circles to bunch up the glue into sticky balls and then spray the plastic with WD 40 and wipe the glue balls off clean. |
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04-09-2020, 01:27 PM | #4 |
Join Date: Apr 2019
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mine are pretty much falling off on there own... I have pulled off a few of them already... I am tempted to put a couple RMZ Suzuki stickers I have as a joke but i have to much respect for the Suzuki's I have had so I probably won't
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04-09-2020, 01:33 PM | #5 |
Join Date: Apr 2020
Location: Tacoma, Washington
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A heat gun, WD40 & lots of elbow grease!!
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04-09-2020, 02:30 PM | #6 |
Join Date: Nov 2019
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Some easy, some hard
I used a heat gun to loosen them up. Then, I found that some of them came off really easy. The others left goo. I tried acetone first, but it just balled up the goo.
I got some goo-gone and that worked. It took a while, but it worked. I was told by the Hardware guy (in the paint department) to use goo-gone because it is less harsh on plastic than goof-off. But if goo-gone hadn't worked I would have tried goof-off. Here are before and after photos. I left a few decals...just so it wouldn't be all black & white.
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04-09-2020, 07:12 PM | #7 |
Join Date: Apr 2019
Location: Strong Island New Yawk
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I'm all about removing the decals... like my TBR7 look without the decals
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04-09-2020, 07:54 PM | #9 | |
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Location: Goodyear, Arizona
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04-09-2020, 11:42 PM | #10 |
Join Date: Mar 2020
Location: Oregon
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Freaking cool, just the fact they will come off without a PhD and not take a month! Thank you
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04-09-2020, 11:52 PM | #11 |
Join Date: Apr 2019
Location: Strong Island New Yawk
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I'm completely jealous of some of these stories ..... I'd rather snake a waste drain line with my bare hands than remove those decals again
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04-10-2020, 11:08 PM | #12 |
Join Date: Oct 2019
Posts: 112
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HA HA,you guys are lucky my DLX stickers peeled off in my hands as I was working on it.I wasn’t dead set on removing some of them but they all peeled off in less than 5 minutes.
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